Battle of the Wake Island - The Battle that Echoed Across the Pacific During World War II, Where Ordinary Men Became Legends #880476

In December of 1941, the Pacific Ocean was vast and violent, a blank canvas of uncertainty where the tides of war would redraw maps and rewrite history.
The headlines of that month were monopolized by the attack on Pearl Harbor—a dramatic and cinematic blow that launched the United States into World War II. But just days later, something quieter, less broadcast, but no less meaningful occurred some 2,000 miles west of Hawaii.
On a coral atoll barely big enough to fit a small town, a group of construction workers, radio operators, and a handful of Marines would hold off the seemingly unstoppable might of the Japanese Empire. This was the Battle of Wake Island.
Wake was not meant to be legendary. It was, by most strategic accounts, a speck. A remote dot in the Pacific that had, up until that moment, been more of a footnote in imperial ambitions than a page in any serious war plan.